Law enforcement officers have exposed a number of shady schemes at customs in recent months. A large-scale special operation is currently underway.
This was reported on February 10 at the State Bureau of Investigation. They note that they are acting with the Security Service of Ukraine and the Office of the Prosecutor General.
“In recent months, we have carried out a lot of painstaking work to identify shadow schemes at customs. According to preliminary estimates, transactions at customs were washed out every month from the state budget, approximately up to ten billion hryvnias. This is a third of what the institution should collect during the month. That is, every third hryvnia on customs duties went into the pockets of corrupt officials,” the Bureau reported.
What is known about the special operation
DBR, SBU and the Office of the Prosecutor General are conducting a large-scale special operation today. They started searches in the Central Office of the State Customs Service and Volyn, Lvov, Ternopil, Chernivtsi, Odessa, Kyiv, Rivne and Transcarpathian regional customs offices of Ukraine.
About 50 business entities have been identified to help customs officials implement shady schemes. So far, their activities have been blocked, the DBR reported.
Law enforcement officers work at certain sections of the state border and at checkpoints. After the first-priority investigative actions, the DBR promised to provide more information. The agency emphasized that the stability of the country's financial system depends on the cleansing of the authorities. dir=”ltr”>
